The Day ‘Containers Everywhere’ Met a Database – Part 2

In the previous post , I introduced a real migration scenario where a client, in the process of modernising their application, made an interesting architectural choice - to run their MySQL database inside a container alongside the rest of their services. At first glance, the approach made sense. The entire application was being redesigned around containers. Keeping everything consistent felt clean and intuitive. But as we explored in the first post, databases don’t behave like the rest of your a